Disable enhanced taskbar not work.

Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.3194

I've started encountering an issue after the latest set of Windows patches.  Essentially, the default Windows start button is not being deactivated properly.  I've recorded a video of it happening.

It is a little hard to see in the video, but if I mouse directly over the start button and touch nothing else, it will not have a mouse-over effect.  If I click it, Start11 opens properly.  However, if I mouse over another button, then back over to the start menu button, it will obtain a mouse-over effect, and, when I click it at that time, it will pop open both the Start11 menu AND the default Windows start menu.

This started happening after the Patch Tuesday updates a week ago.  I can work around the issue by applying a custom start button image, as shown in the video.

My Start11 settings:

Start Menu: Windows 10 Style
Taskbar: Enhanced OFF, transparency 0% solid, auto-hide enabled in Windows settings, left-aligned enabled in Windows settings.
Search: Use Start11 Search ON

I could give a settings backup if it would be helpful, but it had a ton of base64 encoded data inside it and I didn't know what could possibly be leaked if I attached it.

EDIT: Some extra information:

Display: Alienware AW3423DWF, 3440x1440 ultrawide.  Only one display.
Other properties: 10-bit color, 144 Hz variable refresh rate (FreeSync), dynamic refresh in windows: OFF
Scale: 100%

Windows 11 Pro 24H2

26100.3194

Hello, how can I change the Windows Update and settings icons, selecting the icon does not work in both cases

Regards

Tom

I hadn't upgraded for a while, maybe skipped two or three updates. I upgaded yesterday, and now two important things are broken:

1) I use the old and deprecated, but still useful ObjectBar (also a Stardock product), which I had docked to the bottom edge in hidden mode, where a key combo which was triggered by a mouse button (logitech is customizable, allows to assign keyboard combos to buttons).

When I pressed the button, then this ObjectBar bar would show directly above the Taskbar, at its full length. This has been working for years.

Now it does not show up anymore, when the enhanced taskbar is enabled in Start11.

2) I use the old and deprecated, but still useful TrueLaunchBar, because I was slowly migrating from ObjectBar to TrueLaunchbar. I had this set to be docked to the bottom edge, not in taskbar mode, and hidden.

When I moved the mouse to the bottom right corner of my center monitor, then TLB would show, giving me access to the shortcuts. This has been working since I started using it, about a year ago.

Now it does not show up anymore, when the enhanced taskbar is enabled in Start11.

This forced me to disable enhanced taskbar, which forced me to use that *huge* Windows taskbar, which can't be colored in black, because the font will also be in black. So I have those semi-bright, big taskbars on all three monitors all the time. Not good, it was perfect before.

What changed in that update? Why are these tools now broken?

Same problem seems to exist Launchbar Commander and QQ.

How do I download the previous version?

@Neil Banfield, thank you for your reply.

Is there a way to download the installers of the last two versions?

Start11 v2.5 Changelog (Released 01/15/2025)

Start11 v2.11 Changelog (Released 09/09/2024)

I think, but am not entirely sure, that I was using 2.11. The problem is that the upgrade process does not make a copy of the downloaded binary. Normally updates get made by the software downloading to the download folder or desktop and then executing it from there, so that the installer binary remains accessible.

Thank you in advance.

I had a lot of problems with the 2.50 betas with no taskbar preview thumbnails, jump lists not on the screen, and the start menu button disappearing, so I stopped following.

I installed 2.52.1 last week and I have yet to experience any of these issues or any other new usability issues. Love finally being able to go back to having my taskbar on the side of my display under Windows 11, great work by the Stardock team!

That doesn't fix it.

So over the last few weeks having to work on a lot of stuff across 3 monitors I've noticed more of a pattern, none of the taskbar icons on secondary monitors work until you click on the start menu on the secondary monitors (you need to have the start menu on all monitors) - then the buttons on the secondary task bars start working again.

Is there a known issue that the taskbar will only move to the top of the screen on one monitor when using multi monitors?  If so is there any expectation this will be resolved.  I'm currently in trial mode and trying to decide if I should make the purchase or not.

Using the latest version 2.51 my taskbar only appears at the top of the screen on the main monitor.  My monitors are identical.  They have the latest software and I don't see any errors reported in Event Viewer.

Thanks for any feedback!

Start11 2.51, Win11 Pro 24H2 with the latest "patch Tuesday" updates as of March 12 2025 applied. I did not notice this issue before the reboot to install the latest Windows update.

Issue: When I let Start11 enhance the taskbar, the thumbnail displayed when hovering over an application on the taskbar is offset to the left. When I disable Start11's taskbar enhancement, thumbnails appear over the hovered application.

Here's a screen gif of the behavior I'm seeing.

This is a dual 4K display setup, side by side.

The latest non-beta version available to me is 2.51. I downloaded that, uninstalled, rebooted and reinstalled. It's working better but still appears to be a bit wonky. Notice the transition from Telegram to Teams:

If your intent was to have me install the beta version, that was not clear. I'm not as adventurous as I was in my youth so I went the GA route.

It looks like I ran out of replies for new accounts, but realized that I had originally registered my Start11 purchase through my Paypal email address and forgot about that when I created my forum account. So, at least for now DodgerOfDeBoulets = DodgeDeBoulet.

Anyway ... yes, it appears that it affects only Telegram, and then only when it's adjacent to Teams. It doesn't have that behavior when adjacent to any other applications or even Teams when Taskbar Enhancement is disabled.

We are closing this thread with the recommendation that clients with issues please 1st try the current Start11 2.52 beta

https://forums.stardock.com/534085/start11-252-beta-feedback-thread

If you still have unresolved issues, please report them in that thread.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager